IDENTIFY THE ORGANIZATIONAL PATTERN. HOW ARE THEIDEAS IN THE PASSAG...

1. Identify the organizational pattern. How are the

ideas in the passage or paragraph organized?

word in question is specific or general. If it is a specific

Then consider: Does any sentence or paragraph

person, place, or thing, then it probably should be capi-

seem to be out of place in the pattern?

talized. Remember, in this regard, specific means partic-